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...Sanders Theater on February 26, will mark the first time that a Cuban performer has been granted a visa to perform in the United States since 2003. Born in 1930 to a wealthy Spanish mother and a black, pro-athlete father during a time when mixed-race marriages were forbidden, she blossomed into a gifted singer and dancer, going on to perform with the well-known Buena Vista Social Club and to win a 2009 Latin Grammy for her latest album “Gracias.” In an email to The Harvard Crimson translated from Spanish, Portuondo anticipates...
...sticks and mud. Sanitation is minimal. Sewage facilities, hugely inadequate in the monsoon season, run alongside the housing. An earlier March 2009 MSF survey found that 40% of those who died in this unregistered camp in the first part of that year died from diarrhea. The government, however, has forbidden further development of the camps' infrastructure, so as not to attract any people more to the improvised settlement. "There is just one toilet between every 10 families," says Ziaul Haque, 40, who acts as a kind of camp administrator...
...such an arbitrary criteria as race is “directly subversive of the principle of equality.” All that Olson and Boies need to do to prove their case, therefore, is extend the Loving ruling from racial discrimination to sexual discrimination, a policy that is also forbidden under the equal protection clause...
...year. In New York, it is near impossible to fire a teacher - even one accused of a crime, drug addiction or flagrant misbehavior. The miscreants are stashed in "rubber rooms" at full pay, for years, while the union pleads their cases. In New York, school authorities are forbidden, by state law, to evaluate teachers by using student test results...
...then rocking out and yelling, "Stop the hate!" The concert then comes to an abrupt halt when the meeting's organizers, backed by Chicago police, step in, deeming it "not Islamically appropriate." Afterward, the punks smash their guitars and begin an ironic, anti-authority chant outside: "Music is haram [forbidden]!" (See pictures of Muslims in America...